"Myrl Jeffcoat" wrote in message
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Try looking at the picture of the Climbing Cecil Brunner. We had one
on a fence when I was a kid, and it sounds very much like what you
describe.

Way too light and puffy. Beautiful though, will consider that for my
arbor.

This one was much darker pink, or rose-colored, and not purplish or
mauve. This is one tough mystery to unravel. My memory of it isn't the
best but for the color (memory is close but couldn't nail it on a paint
sampler) and size of bloom, we moved away from there when I was 12, and
much as I loved flowers when I was a kid, I scrutinized it occasionally,
but never thought to ask anything about it. Just wrote to my childhood
friend but doubt she'll know. She will probably remember the rose
though. I don't remember if it had a yellow center or not, sure it
didn't have a button center.

Thanks for responding. It's hard to imagine those fancy French-named
roses out here in the midwest, but maybe. People wouldn't have spent a
lot on a rose in those days, not that just because they have French
names they would have necessarily been that expensive.